To investigate the affective and cognitive gains produced in an auto-tutorial world civilizations course, two groups of students were compared. A traditionally-taught (TT) section of 145 students and an auto-tutorially (AT) taught section of 140 were given pre- and posttests and used the same text and Modular Learning Program. The TT section…

The World Institute of Computer Assisted Teaching (WICAT) system was installed in November 1985 at the Salina and Fordson Schools in Dearborn, Michigan, and selected students in grades two, three, and four received their regular reading and/or mathematics instruction in the WICAT computer laboratory. Achievement gains of these students were…